Twelve new firefighters join Brockton Fire Department

Friday

Mar 21, 2014 at 9:29 PMMar 21, 2014 at 9:40 PM

Twelve firefighters graduated from the Brockton Fire Department Training Program on Friday during a ceremony at The Shaw's Center in Brockton.

BROCKTON – Christian Marchetti joined what he could call the family business.Marchetti was among 12 Brockton residents Friday who graduated from the Brockton Fire Department Training Program during a ceremony at The Shaw’s Center.

He is now the most recent in a long line of firefighters to come from his family. His father, Joseph Marchetti, is currently a Brockton firefighter, and his grandfather Steve Cloonan was a Boston firefighter. The two men were following in the footsteps of Marchetti’s great-grandfather Thomas Cloonan, who joined the Boston Fire Department in 1945.

During the ceremony, the new firefighters were addressed by Mayor Bill Carpenter and a video was played depicting the firefighters during their training.

Deputy Fire Chief Scott Albanese said the new firefighters will be divided into groups of three and assigned to units at Fire Stations 1, 2 and 4.